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Factors explaining the spatial agglomeration of the creative class : empirical evidence for German artists
Alfken, Christoph; Brökel, Tom; Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2013
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the relative importance of economic and amenity-related location factors for attracting talents or members of the creative class. While Florida highlights the role of amenities, openness, and tolerance, others instead emphasize the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303799
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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area : the impact of centrality and peripherality : paper prepared for presentation at the 53r...
Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - 2013 - This version: February 28, 2013
This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553688
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Relaxing Hukou : increased labor mobility and China's economic geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010
China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008797809
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Metros, Agglomeration and Firm Productivity. Evidence from London
Pogonyi, Csaba G. - 2019
, leading to decreasing aggregate value added. This finding is interpreted as empirical proof for the agglomeration shadow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890885
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Defining the Record of High-Growth Firms by U.S. Metropolitan Region : What Happens to the Inc. 500?
Rice, Murray - 2016
Development of an improved definition of the characteristics of business growth and change is an important need for the wide audience that is interested in economic development. This study devotes attention to the intersection of two areas of research interest: the development of firms, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994239
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Employment in Large U.S. Metropolitan Airport Areas
Appold, Stephen - 2013
Airport area planning founders on the lack of a basis for realistic projections of future employment. Using a commercial establishment database including detailed data on location, activities (sector), establishment type, and employment for the 62 airports with scheduled passenger service in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038535
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Agglomeration and Co-Agglomeration of Services Industries
Kolko, Jed - 2015
Economic research on industry location and agglomeration has focused nearly exclusively on manufacturing. This paper … traditional measures of knowledge spillovers, natural resource inputs, and labor pooling explain little of agglomeration in … services industries, this paper takes an alternative approach and looks at co-agglomeration to assess why industries cluster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050706
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Airport Cities in U.S. Metropolitan Context
Appold, Stephen - 2013
Airports have long been a focus of urban planners. Airport cities, one of the three possible means of addressing the need for rapid airport access, are held to have emerged out of the aviation age. Systematic research into their prevalence and nature is lacking. Thus, airport city planning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158661
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On the Economic Foundation of the Urban Network Paradigm : Spatial Integration, Functional Integration and Economic Complementarities within the Dutch Randstad
van Oort, Frank G. - 2014
The current debate on polycentric urban development suggests that inter-firm relations are important for the creation and sustainment of urban networks. Conceptually, the degrees of spatial and functional integration and urban complementarities in economic network relations are hypothesised to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070985
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Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China's Economic Geography
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2010
China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135264